External 8TB HDD, sub A$200 with free prime (free trial available for one month).
Combine with Cash Rewards addiitonal cashback to reduce price to approx $180.
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Not bad at all! Got them previously for ~$250 I think.
$25 / 1TB, good deal!
Ex Dick Smith employee… I remember telling a customer the $1 per Gb for an external HDD was a good deal (going back a few years now…)
Tricky Dicky :P
Dick (picture of head) Smith
Good for that ever-expanding "Linux ISO" collection
haha, yes.
Indeed, Up0rntu, P0rndora, P0rn hat and so much more. They take up so much space even though I only use them once for 2 minutes.
You sir win!
thanks OP. just ordered 1
What's inside? A Red drive?
Seagate not Western Digital.
Probably one of the horrible archive drives. Good for reading, awful at writing too.
Yeah, the reviews say that it's an SMR drive. Avoid if possible.
It will be a compute drive.
Great drive. I purchased this exact one and using it with my PS4. Hasn't missed a beat :)
Great, what drive did you have inside?
Pulling it apart wouldn't be a top priority if one values warranty…
PS4 supports external HDD.
Cool, go and buy a more expansive drive so you can lose money paying for warranties …
You can check the drive without opening it but via some drive diagnostic tools. No need to void the warranty.
It will be a compute drive.
When I last ordered this drive I received a 7200 rpm Barracuda, which is good since it doesn't suffer from slow re-writes like SMR drives do. This might have changed now, and perhaps all you will receive is a 5900 RPM SMR, which is fine for a once off archive, but not if you'll be frequently changing the data (eg music metadata).
In 20 years’ time, the size of this HD will be like 20TB. I remember when 1TB HD were big bricks lol.
20?? You can buy 14tb easily now…
I think you mean 20gb ;)
They weren't any different in size….
Really? I remember 1TB HDDs too and they pretty much always been the same 3.5" form factor as any capacity HD I seen..
Only larger ones were those Quantum Bigfoot drives back in the mid90's but they weren't very popular..
My first 3.5" drive was a whopping 200MB.
Terrible drives to break open and expect to plonk into your server.
educate yourself with backblaze.com
I have no clue what blackblaze has to do with this being a shitty SMR drive with performance that could barely stream 1080p and horrible reliability.
You need to learn how to use a computer.
@samfisher5986: Seriously what am I missing here?
Are you saying I should store my 50+ TB in some cloud storage to stream my 4k movies from? I really don't get it. All I was pointing out is these are really bad drives if your intention is to get some cheap NAS/Home Server drives..
@deelaroo: These are great drives for home storage/media etc, RAID performance is not great but thats just one aspect.
I use Snapraid myself which performs really well with these drives.
Also backblaze is for backing up to the cloud, I store my collection in the cloud for backup purposes as well.
Raid is not a backup.
@samfisher5986: Again not sure what any of that had to do with my comment.
SMR drives are bad for using long term. These are used as external drives for a reason, drives that get relatively much less use because the manufacturer knows they won't last at full time usage. They are slow performing compared to non SMR. I don't use anything less than Ironwolf's nowadays and having no issues for years on them vs. my original lot of WD Greens that despite turning the disk parking off on have all died now after 5-7 years.
Seeing as my work involves working with setting up SANs, cloud backup etc. I have a pretty good idea on RAID and backup and very aware "RAID is not a backup". Saying that though I don't run any RAID or backup for my 50TB of movies and TV, why bother when I could just re download that drives contents if there is a failure? RAID otherwise would just add overhead to read/writes and waste space for really non critical data..
But merits of RAID and backup really wasn't what I was wanting to discuss.
@deelaroo: There is nothing wrong with SMR drives long term.
SMR is not slow for large writes, perfect for media.
If you think you can simply redownload any media easily, you likely have a very average collection.
One per customer?
For ~30 smackers more you'd get a nice Western Digital hard drive, bought one some weeks ago. More reliable and a better deal imho.
https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Ite…
Oh no, reliability wars:-) IMO it comes down to if you get a non SMR in the WD then the 30 smackers is worth it, however it is a lottery.
I don't think WD make an archive drive in 8-10TB range. They certainly don't use them in MyBooks and Easystores.
Plus no cashback, so probably another 20 bucks
Same price but also with 12% cashback through amazon.com.au here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/WD-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB00…
what exactly do you guys do with 8tb? Really interested to know to see if it's worth
If you need to justify it, it's not for you.
yeah but really out of the realm of storing movies, what else could you do with a 8tb that would justify 8tb
TV Shows? High quality files? Games?
@ramona: Don't sound surprised.
And my Steam library would fill an 8tb in no time. Likewise my Xbox collection.
4k uncompressed movies (remuxes) come in around 50-80gb each.
Porn. Copious amount of high definition VR porn. It’s clearly the only reason someone would need so much space
I've got about 24TB in my server where I have mirrored copies of my DVD and Blu Ray collection which I think is around 500 movies or TV series stored at a relatively high quality (aim to be close to indistinguisable from the source).
Nothing downloaded in that, just my own rips. Keep duplicates (which makes my real capacity about 12TB) because re-ripping is so damn time intensive (weeks - months) that I'd rather it all had digital backups, even if I still own the dics as well as a backup.
Collectors can easily use up an 8TB drive… HD videos especially (4k 10bit movies are pigs), but large collections of lossless and high res music will do it, comics, computer games (some are 80 GB in size now), etc. Then you need another 8 TB drive to back up the data in case of failure.
Collecting is for the minority though; most people are content to stream video and audio material nowdays, and aren't afflicted by hoarding tendencies like I am.
A lot of storage drives + Snapraid
Is this HDD actually fast (relative to other HDDs)? I have a portable USB powered WD 2.5" 4tb which is very very slow. Main use for photos/videos and my lower ranked games on Steam.
Using a USB3 port?
it's a good deal but not exactly fast. good for backups.
i have 3 WD and 3 Seagate external HDD, 2 of the Seagate die, may be just my bad luck on Seagate.
I hear 'ya
Guess good for PS4
Ive bought these exact drives previously and removed them from the external housing to put inside of a NAS, one was an archive drive the other was a green barracuda drive, both drives have over 12000 hours on them and are still running strong i guess its luck of the draw with them, some people luck out and get good drives where some people have no luck with them and they crap out on them.
You should turn the disk parking off on any Greens, thats what causes the premature death of them. Can just google instructions but may not be possible for you now.
Do we get any kind of warranty with this considering its from Amazon US store?
No local warranty so it would have to shipped back to US.
Thanks so much for the info!
Great price, these archive drives are ok for storing your movies and tv shows on and have a decent size writing buffer in them, but filling a drive from start to finish takes days.
SMR drives seem extra sensitive to knocks and die pretty easily if mistreated.
I had 2 die on me last year within a very short period after initial use, so no way I'll be buying any SMR based Seagate drive.
I had one die about 2 hours after first spin up also, amazon payed for return postage and the replacement has been fine.
Did anyone know how many disks are there in this device?
I'm thinking if there's only one disk and when it's broken I lose 8tb. But if it has 2 disks when one's broken I can still use the other 4tb. Is this correct?
Cheers guys.
1 disk.
Does this come with the AU AC adaptor?
I'm not sure, I'd guess it has a slide on piece for Australian prongs, if not a cheap $2 adapter will do the trick.
My order has been cancelled by Amazon without any reason :(
I got mine yesterday. I briefly tested it and then shucked it. Inside is a standard Barracuda Compute drive. The power supply is for the US, which is a bit odd seeing I bought it from amazon.com.au, but I won't be using it anyway.
Schucking info @ https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/354182